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" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Seite 290
von Thomas Jefferson - 1830
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Panama Canal Treaty: Disposition of United States Territory : Hearing Before ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers - 1977 - 508 Seiten
...accompanying and following n. 155. 1 14. McDougal & Lans 536-582. 20-266 O - 78 - 26 EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of ihe covenant, too sacred to be touched . . . Let us . . . avail ourselves of our reason and experience,...
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Voter Initiative Constitutional Amendment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1978 - 1256 Seiten
...Toward the end of his long and illustrious career, Thomas Jefferson put the same point in this way: “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew this age well; I belonged to it, and labored with It It deserved well of its country. It was very like...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 1290 Seiten
...Toward the end of his long and illustrious career, Thomas Jefferson put the same point in this way : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew this age well ; I belonged to it, and labored 'with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...
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Democratic Theories and the Constitution

Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 Seiten
...beginning of this change was: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and they deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment....
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What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities

Thomas R. Cole - 1987 - 324 Seiten
...Jefferson, invoked during congressional debate over the 1983 Social Security amendments, are illuminating: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. ... It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of...
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Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1346 Seiten
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdoia more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I...
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Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the Supreme ..., Teil 3

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1312 Seiten
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the A-4 3761 preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment....
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Collected Writings on Education and Drama

Dorothy Heathcote - 1991 - 219 Seiten
...itself. Like the generation of the revolutionary dead we have a destiny to create. Thomas Jefferson said: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of a preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what 198 they did to be beyond amendment ......
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The Hamilton-Madison-Jefferson Triangle

Morton J. Frisch - 1992 - 50 Seiten
...most precise formulation on the imperfection of constitutions as constitutions was his statement that "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment . . . But I know . . . that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human...
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The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years. 45 He was contemptuous of those who "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 46 The evangelicals, in the revival of 1800 that was intimately connected with the electoral victory...
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